THEVIETNAMWAR Score to Debut on September 15, 2017

THEVIETNAMWAR

Uni­ver­sal Music Enter­pris­es announced that THEVIET­NAMWAR, a new 10-part series direct­ed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that will begin air­ing on PBS on Sep­tem­ber 17, 2017, will be accom­pa­nied by two com­pan­ion sound­tracks to be released on Sep­tem­ber 15, 2017.

THEVIET­NAMWAR fea­tures tes­ti­mo­ny from near­ly 80 wit­ness­es, includ­ing many Amer­i­cans who fought in the war and oth­ers who opposed it, as well as Viet­namese com­bat­ants and civil­ians from both the win­ning and los­ing sides.

Ten years in the mak­ing, the series brings the war and the chaot­ic epoch it encom­passed vis­cer­al­ly to life. Writ­ten by Geof­frey C. Ward, pro­duced by Sarah Bot­stein, Novick and Burns, it includes rarely seen, dig­i­tal­ly re-mas­tered archival footage from sources around the globe, pho­tographs tak­en by some of the most cel­e­brat­ed pho­to­jour­nal­ists of the 20th cen­tu­ry, his­toric tele­vi­sion broad­casts, evoca­tive home movies, and rev­e­la­to­ry audio record­ings from inside the Kennedy, John­son and Nixon admin­is­tra­tions. The series fea­tures more than 100 icon­ic musi­cal record­ings from many of the great­est artists of the era, and orig­i­nal music from Trent Reznor and Atti­cus Ross as well as the Silk Road Ensem­ble fea­tur­ing Yo-Yo Ma.

We are incred­i­bly hon­ored to be a part of this project. With ‘THEVIET­NAMWAR,’ Ken, Lynn and Sarah have cre­at­ed some­thing of vital impor­tance. To bear wit­ness to their process was immense­ly inspir­ing. The sheer scale of the project com­bined with the mag­ni­tude of the sub­ject mat­ter was ini­tial­ly daunt­ing for us, but the com­mit­ment, care and rev­er­ence they dis­played made the expe­ri­ence deeply sat­is­fy­ing on many lev­els,”

THEVIET­NAMWAR will be avail­able on Blu-ray and DVD on Sep­tem­ber 19, 2017 from PBS Dis­tri­b­u­tion at shopPBS​.org. The DVD and Blu-ray extras include a 45-minute pre­view pro­gram, two spe­cial seg­ments on the con­tem­po­rary lives of two of the program’s par­tic­i­pants, and delet­ed scenes. The series will also be avail­able for dig­i­tal down­load.